remove stale ancient useless file. and don't get pissy about redirects. the old handbook.xml is 4 years out of date, and doesn't list a few of our arches for which we have handbooks, like PPC64. it needs to go. it's not linked anywhere.

--emptytree doesnt "remove" glibc from dependencies, on the contrary - glibc is listed as a dependency. It is used however as the primary dependency which makes all other packages on your system be listed as well

#45572 - Apparently not all LiveCDs have iwconfig on them. Added a warning about this and a link to the linux-wlan-ng project for those interested in persuing their installation using their wireless access. Of course I know they get the link while they dont have a working connection -- if ppl complain about this just say its either getting the link or no information at all :p

The installation instructions in the handbook should only be the instructions we
can "maintain". All other instructions should be maintained in the alternative
installation guide (altinstall.xml). This moves out all the irrelevant
information. It also includes better description on the LiveCDs and such.

Don't have the users run etc-update during the installation process. Too many
users that do tend to overwrite the configuration files they just created and
then complain about this on #gentoo.
etc-update isn't necessary during the installation, but it is important for
people to know about it. We therefore refer the user to the part on
configuration file protection so that, once they've finished their installation,
they can read up on it.

#43323 - bindmounting /dev is not needed, it even causes issues; or we remove the instruction or we tell the stage1 bootstrapping script to treat the /dev specially (touch /dev/.devfsd). Ive opted to remove the instructions as recommended by most sources

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